Humanity Quotes - Page 18

• Walk with me, but don't follow me blindly. Hold fast to the truth, not to my garments. My body is merely a clay structure; today it is here, tomorrow it shall be gone. If you attach yourself to me today, what are you going to do tomorrow when I am not with you? Attach yourself to God, attach yourself to humanity, only then will you be closer to me.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Clay, Gone, Body

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• I am a deeply religious person, but I belong to no denomination. I follow the spirit of God's law, not the letter of the law. One can become so attached to the outward symbols and structure of religion that one forgets its original intent - to bring one closer to God. We can only gain access to the Kingdom of God by realizing it dwells within us as well as in all humanity. Know that we are all cells in the ocean of infinity, each contributing to the others' welfare.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Religious, Ocean, Cells

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.85, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• If we could put material things into their proper place, and use them without being attached to them, how much freer we would be. Then we wouldn't burden ourselves with things we don't need. If we could only realize that we are all cells in the same body of humanity - then we would think of having enough for all, not too much for some and too little for others.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Thinking, Cells, Body

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.153, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Surely, if we take on thinking partners - or, at the least, thinking servants - in the form of machines, we will be more comfortable with them, and will relate to them more easily, if they are shaped like humans. It will be easier to be friends with human-shaped robots than with specialized machines of unrecognizable shape. And I sometimes think that, in the desperate straits of humanity today, we would be grateful to have nonhuman friends, even if they are only the friends we build ourselves.

  Isaac Asimov

  Grateful, Thinking, Shapes

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• The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a livable world. Humanity cannot afford to waste its financial and emotional resources on endless, meaningless quarrels between each group and all others. there must be a sense of globalism in which the world unites to solve the real problems that face all groups alike.

  Isaac Asimov

  Real, Emotional, Civilization

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.591, Bantam

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• The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own "national security" to be paramount above all other consideration.

  Isaac Asimov

  Cutting, Self, Earth

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.591, Bantam

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• Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation.

  Carl Sagan

  Greek, Library, World

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. Who Speaks for Earth? [Episode 13]". TV series, 1990.

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• The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Achievement, Victory, Democracy

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• A writer is obviously at his most natural and relaxed when he writes in the first person. Writing is a personal transaction between two people, conducted on paper, and the transaction will go well to the extent that it retains its humanity.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Two, People

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• The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key.

  Phil Collins

  Keys, Intuition, Fundamentals

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• The enemy of a tree is not only the enemy of humanity, but also the enemy of all the living beings!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Tree, Enemy

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• There is no rain beyond the clouds; there is no humanity beyond the compassion!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rain, Compassion, Clouds

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• When we look at the sky, we see two things: The beauty of the space and the future of the humanity!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sky, Two, Space

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• You can be a German, you can be a Greek or a Spanish or a Japanese etc, but your true nation is the whole humanity!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Greek, Etc, Whole

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• You frantically want to make a mark on the history of humanity? You, King of the Fools! In the very distant future, there shall be no history; there shall remain not even a single trace of anything!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Want, Fool

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• Liberty is of small value to the lower third of humanity. They greatly prefer security, which means protection by some class above them. They are always in favor of despots who promise to feed them. The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mean, Men, Class

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.250, Knopf

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• The bomb was necessary to awaken England from her dreams. We dropped the bomb on the floor of the assembly chamber to register our protest on behalf of those who had no other means left to give expression to their heart-rending agony. Our sole purpose was to make the deaf hear and give the heedless a timely warning. Others have as keenly felt as we have done and from such seeming stillness of the sea of Indian humanity, a veritable storm is about to break out.

  Bhagat Singh

  Dream, Heart, Mean

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• The challenge presented by the prospect of superintelligence, and how we might best respond is quite possibly the most important and most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced. And-whether we succeed or fail-it is probably the last challenge we will ever face.

  Nick Bostrom

  Challenges, Important, Might

  Nick Bostrom (2014). “Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies”, p.7, Oxford University Press (UK)

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• One of the troubles with humanity is that it is oftimes too lazy to do its own thinking.

  Charles S. Price

  Thinking, Lazy, Trouble

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• To place your name by gift or bequest in the keeping of an active educational institution is to...make a permanent contribution to the welfare of humanity.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Educational, Names, Welfare

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• Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.

  Philip Carr-Gomm

  Lying, Cutting, Past

  Philip Carr-Gomm (2011). “Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century”, p.61, Random House

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• Poverty must be eliminated or else the honour of humanity will vanish!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Poverty, Honour

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• Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.

  Matsuo Basho

  Fall, Rivers, Tree

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• Humanity looks to me like a magnificent beginning but not the final word.

  Freeman Dyson

  Finals, Looks, Magnificent

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• O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in "the truth," and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien"-I wager he finds nothing!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Ticklish, Wagers

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.28, e-artnow

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